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Ballycastle High School Science Awards |
In recent years Ballycastle High School young scientists have won a series of awards which allow them to make the justifiable claim to be at the cutting edge of scientific education in the United Kingdom. |
| 2008 | Ballycastle High School were winners of the ‘Physics at Home’ competition sponsored by the Institute of Physics. |
| 2007 | Ballycastle High School were overall winners of ‘Paperclip Physics.’ |
| 2006 | Ballycastle High School pupils were declared outright winners of the Junior All Ireland Young Environmentalist Award |
| 2006 | Northern Ireland regional winners of ‘Express Yourself.’ Ballycastle High School were highly commended in the final held at the Royal Institute in London, both for their knowledge and their enthusiasm for Science. |
| 2005 | Northern Ireland regional winners of ‘Express Yourself.’ At the London final Ballycastle High School were placed in the top four teams, and were highly commended for both their scientific knowledge and communication skills. |
| 2005 | Ballycastle High School won the grand prize at the ‘Northern Ireland Young Scientist’ competition and were invited to represent Northern Ireland at the British Association Science Fair. A second Ballycastle team came runners up in their age category. They also won the industrial award for ‘best laboratory practice’. |
| 2005 | The achievements of the Ballycastle High School scientists were featured in articles in both the Guardian and the Times Educational Supplement. |
| 2004 | Winners of the Northern Ireland heat of ‘Express Yourself.’ As winners of the national final held in the Royal Institute in London Ballycastle High School were awarded the title of, In September 2005 the team returned to London where they presented the Royal Institute Junior Lecture in the Faraday Lecture Theatre. |
| 2003 | Winners of the Northern Ireland heat of ‘Express Yourself,’ Ballycastle High School represented the province in the U.K. final in the Royal Institute in London to where they were highly commended runners up and placed in the top four schools in the United Kingdom. |